John Chacona

If you were looking for innovative programming at Tuesday’s final Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra concert, forget about it. The pairing of the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto and Brahms’ First Symphony was as predictable as it gets, guaranteed

Received wisdom tells us that the great Hollywood film scores were born in Vienna and brought to California by Erich Wolfgang Korngold and Max Steiner. That’s correct but insufficient, as Daniel Boico and the Chautauqua

After a concert on Thursday evening that featured a world premiere (Annie Gosfield’s “Almost Truths and Open Deceptions,” apparently tepidly received), it wouldn’t be hard to see Saturday’s all-Russian program as a peace offering

When conductor Teddy Abrams was introduced at last evening’s Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra concert, there was a moment’s hesitation before the tentative applause. Perhaps the audience in the half-full Amphitheater thought the diminutive bespectacled guy